Persian Nights

7 best books like Persian Nights (Diane Johnson): Outer Order, Inner Calm, May We Be Forgiven, How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7, The Messiah of Stockholm, Oh Crap! I Have a Toddler: Tackling These Crazy Awesome Years—No Time-outs Needed, The First Salute, Practicing History: Selected Essays

Outer Order, Inner Calm

Author

Gretchen Rubin

Bestselling author of The Four Tendencies and The Happiness Project Gretchen Rubin illuminates one of her key realizations about happiness: For most of us, outer order contributes to inner calm. In a new book packed with more than one hundred concrete ideas, she helps us create the order and organization...

May We Be Forgiven

Author	A.M. Homes
ISBN	0670025488

A darkly comic novel of twenty-first-century domestic life and the possibility of personal transformation

Harold Silver has spent a lifetime watching his younger brother, George, a taller, smarter, and more successful high-flying TV executive, acquire a covetable wife, two kids, and...

How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7

Author	Joanna Faber
ISBN	1501131656

A must-have resource for anyone who lives or works with young kids, with an introduction by Adele Faber, coauthor of How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk, the international mega-bestseller The Boston Globe dubbed “The Parenting Bible.”

For over thirty-five years,...

The Messiah of Stockholm

Author	Cynthia Ozick
ISBN	0394756940

In Stockholm of 1980 or so a man is living in a tiny cold water flat. He writes reviews for a local newspaper of modest circulation. He is a refugee from war-torn Poland and, he says, the son of that Polish genius -- shot by a Nazi in the streets of Drohobycz Poland in 1942 -- Bruno Schulz. He is obsessed with...

Oh Crap! I Have a Toddler: Tackling These Crazy Awesome Years—No Time-outs Needed

Author	Jamie Glowacki
ISBN	1982109734

Real-world, from-the-trenches toddler parenting advice from the author of the bestselling Oh Crap! Potty Training.

Toddlers—commonly defined as children aged between two and five years old—can be a horribly misunderstood bunch. What most parents view as bad behavior is in fact just...

The First Salute

Author	Barbara W. Tuchman
ISBN	1842121774

"First Salute" is the best book I've read on the American Revolution. It starts with a mistaken cannon salute by an obscure cannoneer in a Dutch port in the Carribean which inadvertently recognizes the government of the rebelling colonies which is an insult to England which leads to war between England,...

Practicing History: Selected Essays

Author	Barbara W. Tuchman
ISBN	0345911016

I'm somewhat new to Tuchman, having read only The Guns of August and this 1981 compilation of essays and speeches ranging from the 1930s to the 1970s. By far the most interesting pieces are in the first section, "The Craft," where she discusses her habits of research and writing. Among her pointers:...